tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post4507303101489546429..comments2024-03-28T21:32:41.763-05:00Comments on driftglass: Like Flies Trapped in Amber Hearddriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-83781496542168774932022-05-23T10:45:30.661-05:002022-05-23T10:45:30.661-05:00The comments by Anonymous are quite possibly the m...The comments by Anonymous are quite possibly the most profound and accurate observations I've ever read about this topic.<br /><br />Here-here. <br /><br />Copied and saved, for future reference.canuck1963https://www.blogger.com/profile/18446449011465785723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-30007053898847548802022-05-23T10:14:36.279-05:002022-05-23T10:14:36.279-05:00Decades ago, I read a pulpy horror-sci fi novel ca...Decades ago, I read a pulpy horror-sci fi novel called Prototype. The plot wasn't that memorable, but near the end of the book there was one line that's stuck with me. Paraphrased from memory:<br /><br />"With no enemies left, we became our own enemy. It would make a fitting epitaph."<br /><br />Whatever America might have become, whatever worth and goodness we have previously brought into the world and might yet bring, had we but the courage - we sold it all, gave it away, laughed it into the void. We empowered "leaders" and politicians who prioritized frozen peaches and corporate profits over human rights and a caring society. We tolerated the intolerant; we handed them the keys to the kingdom, placed their hands on the levers of government.<br /><br />And now the saboteurs and liars and seditious insurrectionists are gleefully smashing everything they can touch - and the institution with a Constitutionally-enshrined duty to call out such things isn't even asleep at the wheel; it's actively cooperating with the people who are destroying the US.<br /><br />With no enemies left (not really, there are plenty, but none worse than the one inside our own borders), we have become our own enemy. America's citizens sleep as her coffers are plundered by the filch; we sleep as our rights are sundered and taken; we sneer at the media circus as our democracy dies.<br /><br />And the media mavens will sail into the sunset on an ocean of money, unbothered by the destruction they've enabled. They'll always have the money to buy their way out of consequences, and the clout to white-out their role in the catastrophe.<br /><br />I hate to be this gloomy, but: we really are so fucked.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-21204638368998472952022-05-22T13:07:11.878-05:002022-05-22T13:07:11.878-05:00/Paste
Because that news is guaranteed to scare of.../Paste<br />Because that news is guaranteed to scare off 2/3rds of those earholes and eyeballs.*<br /><br />Well shit!, now I want to know what the typo was...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-56648064599108338392022-05-22T11:48:32.768-05:002022-05-22T11:48:32.768-05:00People want to be entertained. Well now actually t...People want to be entertained. Well now actually they want to be entertainers in the story of a great struggle for future of the universe which must be won for....? Well us, the good guys and the big guy upstairs. It's going to be great being part of it all. Until the lights go out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-39496263026845438722022-05-22T09:09:38.670-05:002022-05-22T09:09:38.670-05:00Three days ago, I said this EXACT thing to my wife...Three days ago, I said this EXACT thing to my wife:<br /><br />Everyone's focussed on the Depp/Heard trial......yet hardly ANYONE mentions or cares about the fact that the U.S. (as of last week) has now reached ONE MILLION COVID-19 deaths. <br /><br />One MILLION Americans. Wiped out.<br /><br />The equivalent of having the entire state of Delaware.......eradicated from the map. <br /><br />But what do folks REALLY care about, instead?<br /><br />Amber Heard testifying about how her dog stepped on a bee. <br /><br />In-effing-credible. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />canuck1963https://www.blogger.com/profile/18446449011465785723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-63982725953432299402022-05-21T20:28:35.553-05:002022-05-21T20:28:35.553-05:00"Almost every other story involving politics ..."Almost every other story involving politics in this country -- the theft of a SCOTUS seat by Mitch McConnell, the insurrection, the rise of Tucker Carlson, the election, administration and renomination of Donald Trump, the blithe acceptance Republicans in congress will block everything, the no-holds barred Republican assault on voting rights, the no-holds barred Republican assault on abortion rights, the invention and propagation of the CRT lie, the Replacement Theory lie, the Don't Say Gay stuff, the blood-libel hysteria over the imaginary burning of imaginary fetuses to power streetlights, and on and on and on -- can all be subsumed under the general heading of "The Republican party is fascist white nationalist cult that is trying to destroy our democracy".<br /><br />You forgot one: flooding our country with guns. THAT's the one that has us looking at safer int'l waters. They release a virus like guns into gen pop and then are shocked at the street violence? And with the eventuality of another police shooting gone bad and another Kenosha-like situation, this time the cop-adjacent militias are gonna feel like they've got a license to kill. Add them to any mix in disputed local/statewide outcomes either this fall or '24, and it's gonna get ugly. And don't forget the accelerationist white nationalist rhetoric that can inspire even more mass shootings. Every day the GQP sound like they're slowly giving themselves permission to kill the rest of us. I don't really feel like stickin' around to watch a full-on bloody civil war in Pennsylvania (irony, huh?) or Idaho, or wherever when I don't even wanna get on the bus to go uptown anymore. I'm so tired of living in a place that's armed to the teeth potentially anywhere I am at any given moment. I want out of this country. Slavery was America's first original sin. Guns is its second.<br />It didn't have to be like this.<br />And yeah, the Republicans, the fascist party of the USA, did this. On purpose.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16128460666564857113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-62929688293459399372022-05-21T17:58:32.809-05:002022-05-21T17:58:32.809-05:00"But you know who does what to hear another....."But you know who does what to hear another..."<br /><br />Think this is a typo. <br /><br />Blazing fire as usual. <br /><br />Keep on, you know, keeping on. Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00853919098949776873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-74034757438970922212022-05-21T17:31:39.646-05:002022-05-21T17:31:39.646-05:00It may be worse than that, because it's also a...It may be worse than that, because it's also about normalising domestic abuse which, for a party that thinks that women should only be at home washing, cooking and looking after the children, is what they need to see. The more of this that happens, the less those who are far less powerful will be able to speak out.Scurrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15182486408258989295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-83541716691957893392022-05-21T17:24:04.985-05:002022-05-21T17:24:04.985-05:00Excellent.Excellent.bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.com